Production Report

After finishing all our pre-production documentation we were ready to film. To do this we would need more than lesson timetable. We decided dates on which to film although these were not always met. We initially decided to film everything on one day but this didn’t happen due to people being free at different times. We ended up filming on a Friday this was because everyone was free but we did not get it all filmed because we could not al stay for the same amount of time. We managed to get the drag and dell scenes filmed on the first day of filming this however was not good because we had not completed our largest scene. Although there were obvious continuity errors we could not re-film this scene on that day because it was too muddy and beginning to rain. We Managed to get the rest of the scenes filmed through half term these were reasonably easy to film because it was mainly just walking through the woods. There were very few errors in filming at this point except there were a few shots that were in point of view but we were told that this would lose all of the tension that we have built up to this point. Although we did not always stick to the shot list because at the time of filming we did not see the shots fit, we have ended with a lot of shots that are good enough to sort through and cut together to create tension. We initially thought we had captured all the shots we could need but whilst editing we got feedback from peers and Mrs Shipp that we should re-film areas because they didn't look right or gave too much away. We ended up filming over several days because we were being exceptionally fussy in which shots to take. we managed to complete all filming only two weeks before the Easter break. There were a few shots that turned out really well like the attack scene which through a fault which ended in the stick breaking has actually given the effect that the hit was harder than it really was which makes this shot more believable. Most of the shots that we have filmed in the first few days of filming we have re-filmed and discarded.